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On July 24th, lightning sparked the first fires of what would become one of the worst wildfire seasons in US history.  Just under two months later almost 5,800,000 million acres have burned in California and […]

On August 23rd Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by police in Wisconsin. The shooting has left him paralyzed. Why was Blake shot? Because he was walking away from a fight he […]

During the last Great Recession, which started after the 2007/08 global financial crisis, countless workers lost their jobs and homes as the rich and big corporations were protected and bailed out. While many of us […]

‘And so today, I am announcing the suspension of active campaigning and congratulate Joe Biden, a very decent man, on his victory’. Bernie Sanders (April 8, 2020) The Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party […]

Emery Addams from the Independent Socialist Group (US) talks about the significance of the mass anti-racist protests shaking the US, outlining the programme and organisation necessary to end racism. This is the biggest anti-racism mobilisation […]

“In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People […]

Following the killing on 25 May of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police, there has been an outpouring of anger against systemic racism and widening inequalities in the USA. It was only after […]

On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014. A released video recorded by […]